Sentence for one | Use one in a sentence

A sentence using the word one. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use one in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for one.

• And one, sir? (8)
• He harms no one. (12)
• She is one of us. (10)
• Only one thing certain. (8)
• One must look them in the face! (8)
• How would that dead loved one feel? (8)
• The room was like one in a castle. (12)
• I trust no one will come in my path. (10)
• One of the eight gentlemen got up again. (8)
• The last one was dated two months back. (10)
• It was one, neatly named to fit the place. (10)
• Some one has been injured or, you think so. (22)
• If some one commanded me to talk as I write! (10)
• Cecilia looked hastily round; no one had heard. (8)
• The Palatine was one of the Seven Hills of Rome. (13)
• She listened, as one hearing of a quitted sphere. (10)
• By-and-by one insisted that he had seen a twinkle. (10)
• For one thing, would she be at Great Marlow alone? (10)
• Only one had spoken; but he could have killed them both! (8)
• With one hand she plucked at her blouse, just over her heart. (8)
• It was unpardonable for one in his position to incur ridicule. (10)
• One who is intent upon an evil end is open to expose his plan. (10)
• During one of such Shelton found himself in Little Blank Street. (8)
• One of these sand-bars was at the entrance of Egg Harbor Inlet. (18)
• There are few, indeed, who do not profess at least one religion. (7)
• Then there would be a boom, and one might let oneself go a little. (8)
• But how shall a man grudge any one sensations he has so keenly felt? (8)
• But nothing save one black cat came near, and that ran for its life. (8)
• He has two daughters: one went to London, and came to harm, of a kind. (10)
• This will certainly be the beginning of one of our quarrels about Emma, Mr. (4)
• My father will not have one of her aunts to live with him, so there she is. (10)
• In the circles whence she had been brought no one grudged another such things. (5)
• The maid smiled as one who had fairly accomplished the recital of her lesson. (10)
• There is, indeed, one family that is not Protestant, but neither is it Catholic. (2)
• You and I, my dear and one only love on earth, stand outside of ordinary rules. (10)
• It was in the manner of one who yielded step by step, from inability to contend. (10)
• No one was less astonished than Rose at the news that Evan renounced the estate. (10)
• The one person among them a little out of tune with most, was Lady Grace Halley. (10)
• The intermediate month was the one fixed on, as far as they dared, by Emma and Mr. (4)
• A thousand pounds seemed a great deal to me, and very little for one who was rich. (10)
• There was one circumstance in the history of her grievances of particular irritation. (4)
• There came tidings of the bombardment of Brescia one of the historic deeds of infamy. (10)
• He has been running after them, too, long enough, one would think, to make up his mind. (4)
• Victor sketched one or two of the traits allusively to the hearer acquainted with them. (10)
• But the age is notoriously one in which editors underrate and insult the public intelligence. (16)
• He had met on one occasion the Esquarts, the Pettigrews, Mr. Percy Dacier, and a Miss Paynham. (10)
• I suppose I could go to one of those Jews who sell their dinky little blue prints by the yard. (13)
• Another had the mayor intimating in advance that he would not obey an order if one were issued. (16)
• A sense of solace, as if some one had slipped a finger in and smoothed his heart, came over Winton. (8)
• But be it admitted, that to any one loving colour, music, chivalry, the Island of Drab is an exile. (10)
• But one must not expect every thing; though I suppose it would be no difficult matter to widen them. (4)
• But this was long after I read Macaulay, who was one of my grand passions before Dickens or Chaucer. (9)
• It was the first time since the days at Wahnschaffe Castle that any one had spoken to her of Christian. (12)
• And how suffer him to leave her without saying one word of gratitude, of concurrence, of common kindness! (4)
• I do not mean to complain, however; it is undoubtedly a comfortable one, and I hope will in time be better. (4)
• Gentlemen, Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. (8)
• Siding should be made from one of the soft woods, especially those which are classed as durable in the table. (17)
• It is difficult in affliction to think of one who belongs to us as one to whom we owe a duty. (10)
• More than once he betrayed a disposition to take refuge in his class (he being son to one of the puisne Judges). (10)
• Nicholas Treffry was coming from the house, holding the Times in one hand, and a huge meerschaum pipe in the other. (8)
• One evening she returned from a charity kitchen, where twice a week she helped for half an hour to serve the meals. (12)
• They are as different as the two hemispheres in the time of Columbus, yet they touch and are bound in one by laughter. (10)
• I have a little plan of alteration for your bedrooms too, which may now be performed without any inconvenience to any one. (4)
• Dominique came round to them, bearing appearance of one who has seen better days, and a pot of coffee brewed on a spirit lamp. (8)
• His feeling was not one of pity for the woman, nor of peculiar anger with the policeman, but rather of dissatisfaction with himself. (8)
• One does not go into a catalogue of dinners, receptions, meetings, speeches, and the like, when there are more vital things to speak of. (9)
• Personally he was without any flavor of harshness; his mind was as gentle as his manner, which was one of the gentlest I have ever known. (9)
• It was there that he sat every evening, patient, solemn, lonely, and sometimes fell asleep, his square, pale old face nodding to one side. (8)
• Meeting her one evening, ere sweet Italy had exiled herself from the Piazza, he bowed, and stepping to the front of her, bowed pointedly. (10)
• Some one looked in at the door, and then advanced within and came straight to Clementina; she knew without looking up that it was Mrs. Milray. (9)
• Of the many beautiful things to see in the neighborhood of Quebec, our wedding-journeyers were in doubt on which to bestow their one precious afternoon. (9)
• When the spring came, nightingales, redbreasts, finches and thrushes without number sang their merry notes above the head of the unfortunate one who lay there. (5)

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